Hawaiian Electric Utilities accelerates the connection of new distributed energy resources with GridUnity®

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Hawaiian Electric goes live with GridUnity’s Customer Engagement Portal and Engineering Automation software to streamline and accelerate DER Interconnection Applications

SAN ANTONIO, TX, @DistribuTECH, 24 Jan 2018 – GridUnity, a pioneer in distributed energy analytics software-as-a-service, announces Hawaiian Electric’s rapid expansion of its software to help the three electric utilities efficiently and reliably connect new distributed energy resources (DER) to the grid.

The Hawaiian Electric utilities are methodically transforming and automating their operations to reach the target of 100% renewables by 2040 – 5 years ahead of the original state mandated timeline. GridUnity was selected for its proven ability to accelerate DER interconnections and for its agile building blocks – enabling the Customer Services and IT business units to drive software innovation quickly as utility operations evolve.

The GridUnity solution provides Hawaiian Electric customers, and their contractors, one seamless online experience to apply, review and collaborate on interconnection applications – creating a self-service model.  This reduces the demand on call center resources and provides real-time transparency across the complete interconnection review and approval process. Under the hood, GridUnity’s market-leading engineering automation software uses cloud computing and machine learning to rapidly and thoroughly assess applications for compliance with regulatory DER interconnection requirements, freeing up the engineering team to focus on strategic grid decisions.

“We’re excited to offer a streamlined, fully automated process to our customers,” said Earlynne Maile, Manager of DER Operations, Hawaiian Electric. “The software provides customers and contractors a way to manage all their program applications, providing real-time reporting and a clear understanding of exactly where each stakeholder is in the interconnection process.” View Hawaiian Electric’s video, “Introduction to the Interconnection Tool” here.
GridUnity’s CEO Brian Fitzsimons said, “Hawaiian Electric continues to lead the way in transforming its operational model in the lead up to achieving the state’s 100% renewable energy targets. We are proud to have our software as part of Hawaiian Electric’s operations and thank the people of Hawaii for their input into innovations that will help speed the adoption of distributed energy across the globe.”

GridUnity® and CYME announce a partnership to drive innovation across utility engineering operations.

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Distributed energy analytics software leader, GridUnity, is partnering with Eaton’s CYME International T&D to transform the speed and accuracy of complex utility engineering calculations

SAN ANTONIO, TX, @DistribuTECH, 23 Jan 2018 – GridUnity, a pioneer in distributed energy analytics software-as-a-service, is announcing a new platform integration partnership with Eaton’s CYME International T&D.

The proliferation of distributed generation is changing the relationship between utilities and their customers, raising the bar on expectations of service responsiveness and information transparency. To meet these demands, utilities are turning toward more dynamic cloud-based grid analytics software to transform their time-consuming and complex engineering processes. GridUnity enables utilities to automate and connect resources, infrastructure and people across the distributed energy ecosystem.

GridUnity’s elastic cloud computing environment, machine learning algorithms and flexible business processes offers utilities the computational scalability and reliability they need to standardize the new power flow analysis methods required of grid evolution. With CYME seamlessly integrated into the GridUnity platform, utilities can extend the value of their CYME software and unlock additional data insights to continuously improve their network data models. When combined with GridUnity’s data visualization capabilities, the engineering automation services allow scarce utility engineering resources to focus their efforts on potential distribution grid exceptions and suitable mitigation options that ensure future system reliability.

“GridUnity continues to set new standards for innovation in distributed energy analytics software” says Daniel Desrosiers, General Manager, Eaton’s CYME International T&D. “This integration presents innovative solutions to increasingly complex distribution grid planning and operations challenges by leveraging the quality and flexibility of our power system analysis software. We look forward to sharing the benefits of the CYME and GridUnity partnership with utilities across the country”.

“CYME has become one of the industry leaders in power flow software.” said Brian Fitzsimons, CEO, GridUnity. “In an industry first, we can now automate many of these engineering calculations in the cloud. We have received a lot of attention for this integration because bringing the rigor, scale, speed and artificial intelligence of an elastic cloud computing platform to power engineering analysis and planning presents significant advantages for utilities that are transforming their business model.”